PLoS Medicine (Dec 2014)

World Health organization guidelines for management of acute stress, PTSD, and bereavement: key challenges on the road ahead.

  • Wietse A Tol,
  • Corrado Barbui,
  • Jonathan Bisson,
  • Judith Cohen,
  • Zeinab Hijazi,
  • Lynne Jones,
  • Joop T V M de Jong,
  • Nicola Magrini,
  • Olayinka Omigbodun,
  • Soraya Seedat,
  • Derrick Silove,
  • Renato Souza,
  • Athula Sumathipala,
  • Lakshmi Vijayakumar,
  • Inka Weissbecker,
  • Douglas Zatzick,
  • Mark van Ommeren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001769
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 12
p. e1001769

Abstract

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Wietse Tol and colleagues discuss some of the key challenges for implementation of new WHO guidelines for stress-related mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.